Format Guides for Submitting Lower Court Opinions in Electronic Format
- Submit each opinion as a separate e-mail attachment to reporter@courts.state.ny.us. If the authoring judge is not the person sending the opinion, he or she must be included as a recipient or carbon copy (CC:) recipient of the e-mail message. Please do not submit opinions in the form of a letter or a transcript.
- The regarding (Re:) line of the message should state: "Opinions Submitted Electronically."
- The body of the message should read as follows: "Attached hereto is the following opinion: [title of opinion], [court], [decision date], [full name of authoring Judge], saved as: [name of file]."
For example: "Microsoft Corp. v Dell Computer Corp., Supreme Court,
New York County, September 4, 2001, Judge Jane Doe, saved as:
Microsoft123.wpd."
- Please include Appearances of Counsel with all submissions.
- You may include in your e-mail message a one-sentence "Synopsis by the Court." In the event that the opinion is selected for on-line publication, the synopsis may be included in the opinion "abstract" that is published in the Miscellaneous Reports and is published on line with the opinion. The State Reporter may edit the synopsis to conform to editorial standards. Please submit only one synopsis per opinion and limit the length of the synopsis to 128 characters. The following are examples of a synopsis:
- "Police lacked reasonable suspicion to detain suspect standing in line in store."
- "Railroad was not liable for injury sustained in trip on floor mat at station."
- "Evidence supported determination that defendant violated terms and conditions of probation."
- "Dispute between member firm and investors was subject to NASD arbitration."
- "Church was neither directly nor vicariously liable for priest's alleged misconduct."
- "Tenant was entitled to abatement for conditions in his apartment."
- "Fraud defense in action to recover first-party no-fault benefits was pleaded with sufficient specificity."
- "Insurer was precluded from asserting "medical necessity" defense in claim to recover first-party no-fault benefits."
- The opinion must be in WordPerfect format, and all tables must be formatted using the Create Table tool available from the WordPerfect Menu Bar.
- All e-mail correspondence from the Law Reporting Bureau will be sent to the original sender and to any recipients or carbon copy recipients (CC:) of the submission message.
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